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Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Liberals

Steve

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An interesting article was in our local papaer, the writer,.. Jack Fichter is by even the most liberal definitions a far left liberal. often his articles are thought provoking, but always slanted to the left..

while reading the paper,. I was struck by his column and felt it was worth sharing..

Mamas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Liberals

What in the world gave me, Cape May County's chief liberal writer, such an idea about raising children?

I was looking at the lives of some folks I know who were raised in very liberal homes and how their lives have been a bit of a mess.

I was raised in a church going, Barry Goldwater-Richard Nixon-Republican home. I became a liberal on my own after I entered the working world and had some very bad, low paying jobs that made me see the division between the rich and the poor.
Getting back on topic, children of liberal parents, if your children believe “anything goes” that overabundance of free thought may get them into trouble in their own lives.

Tell your child there is a God and do not depend on Star Wars' “Let the force be with you” as their spiritual background. Give your kids some type of religion. All of them teach virtue, honesty and some sort of morality.

for the whole unedited column,..

http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/article/52568-mamas+don%E2%80%99t+let+your+babies+grow+be+liberals
 

Steve

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reader (the Second) said:
He's generalizing if he thinks liberals are all areligious and don't provide religious and moral guidance to their children.

Is this what you believe? Cuz I can talk to you about how my kids went fulltime to a parochial school and you know how freaking liberal you think I am and how godless and so on.

I probably agree with him by the way, in the essentials, but not in the exact solution. Kids need structure, role models, discipline, and morals and loads of love.

First... I would have never thought of you as godless.. as for your children, even though they are more then likely adults.. I'll leave them out of the discussion.. and secondly it wasn't meant as a personnel attack on you or your parenting skills.... it was an effort to "provoke thoughtful debate"..

as for your the first part of your comment:.. Jack is a liberal..
but.. Yes, I understand that liberals are often wrong on their assumptions about others, and often generalize.. and don't have a very good view of other liberals

Did you read the entire article ? or just the small bit I provided? if you had read the entire article, you would seen he used a few examples and even though I seldom agree with Jack, I do think he provides thought provoking columns and articles.. enough to at least read them and in this one single case agree with him, that liberals should at least try to raise your children with a bit of structure..
 
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